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MS-DEFCON 4: Wrapping up a short month

Posted on February 28, 2023 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 20.09.1 • 2023-02-28

By Susan Bradley

February’s patches affected you either severely, or not at all.

The good news: If you are a consumer, home user, or business that does not use Windows Server 2022 or any version of on-premises Exchange server, you will be just fine installing the updates at this time. Therefore, I am very comfortable with lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4.

However, if you are a business patcher with Windows Server 2022 hosted in VMware, you may have been significantly impacted. In addition, patch administrators are still dealing with the side effects of the Exchange updates.

Anyone can read the full MS-DEFCON Alert (20.09.1, 2023-02-28).

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